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What is DevOps Center?

Salesforce DEVOPS Center is a tool embedded inside Salesforce, which makes easier to collaboratively build, test, and deploy components across Salesforce sandboxes – including automations, applications. Let’s figure out way to configure Salesforce DEVOps Center.

Why we need DevOps Center

• Teams can utilize clicks to link DevOps Center to their version control systems, starting with GitHub. Without the prior knowledge user can use it.
• Simple methods for deploying changes with a few clicks. DevOps Center based on the pipeline concept where changes can be easily migrated from one sandbox to another sandbox..
• DevOps Center tracks changes made by teams in their sandboxes automatically. Users can select the desired metadata components by pointing and clicking and ignoring irrelevant ones. As a result, forget about tracking the changes outside of the Salesforce.

How to configure DevOps

Step 1

Go to Quick search and type” DevOps” and click on the “DevOps Center”.

Step 2 – Enable DEVOPS Center

Enable “Enable DevOps Center” and then click on the install package.

Step 3 – Install DEVOps Center Package in Salesforce

Check the Installation progress in the “Installed Packages” section

Step 4 – Create Connected APP

Go to the Quick Search and Type “Connected App” and select “Manage Connected App”. Create a new connected App

Use Below Information

• Connected App Name: DevOps Center
• API Name: DevOps_Center
• Contact Email: your email address
• Description: Manage your development and release processes
• In Web App Settings, enter the Start URL: /sf_devops/DevOpsCenter.app

Step 5 – Manage Permission Set

Click on the “Manage Permission Set” and select

Step 6

Select sf_devops_NamedCredentials and save.

Step 7 – Assign Permission Set

Assign below permission set to the user and your User is Ready to open the Salesforce DevOps Center.

Step 8

Go the the Apps Center and find the DevOps Center App. You are ready to do the Migration! This is the way you can configure the Salesforce DEVOPs Center.

If you want to find out the steps to configure the Github repository, then look here

Learn how to migrate the components using DEVOPS Center.